The Cannes Film Festival has just unveiled the poster of the 74th edition which will be held exceptionally From July 5 to 17, 2021while it was initially scheduled from 11 to 22 May 2021.
It is the face of the actor and American director Spike Lee, president of the jury of this edition which was chosen to appear on this CANNES 2021 poster, because…
“Because impatience is immense To finally find the Cannes decor: the seaside, the palm trees and the black screen which will host the films of the official selection on the white page,
Because this curious look that he will pose on the work of his colleagues filmmakers who come to bring news from the world, of their world and necessarily a little of ours,
Because this personal look that he has offered us since his very first film: shot in the heat of summer 1985 in black and white – already – he jostled cinema – already – by imposing a precursor style, steeped in urban and popular culture,
Because this tender look that he embodies in March Blackmon, the B-Boy of Nola Darling only does his headstereotype of representation of the African-American community that the film Dynamite,
Because this mischievous look which, despite renewed questions and incessant revolts for almost four decades, never neglects entertainment,
… Spike Lee, citizen of the “people’s republic of Brooklyn, New York”, is on the poster for this collector’s edition … necessarily!
Who else?
Since the “people’s republic of the world of cinema, cannes”
Spike Lee had received the Jury Grand Prix for Blackkklansman: I infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan During the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. It was planned to chant the jury of The 73rd edition which was to be held in May 2020 and which had been canceled because of the Pandemic of COVID 19.
It is a photograph of Bob Peterson for Nike which served as a basis at this Cannes 2021 poster, in which the graphic designer joined the palm trees of the Croisette and replaced the “Brooklyn” screen printing under the visor by the Palme d’Or.
Official poster for 74e Cannes Film Festival:
Photograph by Spike Lee with the authorization of Bob Peterson & Nike © All rights reserved.
Graphics © Hartland Villa
Neïla Driss
